Keep Adding		Claiming Space / September 4 - December 13, 2008 A group exhibition curated by Kate Bonansinga and Monica Ramirez-Montagut Rubin Center for the Visual Arts, El Paso, Texas
	Installation Gradient Ghosts, v.III Claiming Space Gradient Ghosts Regeneration Wrekage, Santa Fe Wrekage, Old Mesilla deepCore Post Street Mixed Media Digital Video Design Products News Contact About Links		Claiming Space introduces examples of how urban dwellers claim, mark and record their place in the world. Most of the artwork was commissioned and site-specific - created inside, on the facade of, and around the Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). [left] Gradient Ghosts I, variation II, 2008 Installation view, Rubin Center, El Paso, Texas 3 LED lightboxes with Duratrans prints, paint on white wall sizes variable [right] Sony Integration, 2008 (The Black Estate) watercolor on paper, 40" x 62" Stare-well, 2008 installation view, Fox Fine Arts Center, El Paso, Texas exterior paint and spray paint on concrete sizes variable The exhibition includes five internationally known artists who create architectural-scale paintings or sculpture or engage in performances that respond in non-traditional aesthetics to the generalized urban environment, either its buildings or its neglected spaces. Two of them, immigrants themselves, (Rafael Vargas-Suarez Universal, Julio Cesar Morales), read the urban environment as a static structure that comes to life through the spontaneity of migratory activity. The other three (Nicola Lopez, Leo Villareal and Noah MacDonald), albeit engaging the urban setting as their testing field for unpredictability and random systems, make no specific reference to their ancestors' situation. Noah MacDonald presented new work of his own as well as new projects from both of his collaborative projects, Keep Adding (with Brian Bixby) and The Black Estate (with Scott Pagano). Exhibition funded in part by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, National Endowment for the Arts and the City of El Paso Museums and Cultural Affairs Department. Stare-well, 2008 installation view, Fox Fine Arts Center, El Paso, Texas exterior paint and spray paint on concrete sizes variable Stare-well, 2008 installation view, Fox Fine Arts Center, El Paso, Texas exterior paint and spray paint on concrete sizes variable Stare-well, 2008 installation view, Fox Fine Arts Center, El Paso, Texas exterior paint and spray paint on concrete sizes variable Gradient Ghosts I, Duratrans detail view, 2008 Gradient Ghosts I, Duratrans detail view, 2008